French Premiere of Martin Scorsese's documentary on George Harrison "Living in the material world" @ Grand Rex, Paris Oct 16 2011

Martin Scorsese's documentary on George Harrison :"Living in the Material World" Première
@ Grand Rex, Paris Oct 16 2011

Feat: Yarol Poupaud, Martin Rappeneau,Peter Von Poehl, Mohini Geisweiller, Poni Hoax, Yann Destal, Alister, Turzi, JP Nataf.

Dhani & Girlfriend (far right)

Olivia Harrison / Yarol Poupaud

First we have each band or French artist performing one George Harrison song, most of them are average or very bad ( Poni Hoax completely off key) except for JP Nataf who's playing a great version of "Give me Love" which is probably my favorite George Harrison solo song.
I'm being a bit hard: Mohini, Yann, Yarol & Turzi did good version of their song.

Peter Von Poehl / Mohini Geisweiller

Poni Hoax / Yann Destal / Turzi

JP Nataf (far left), Editor + Olivia + Philman+ Dhani

Then we have Olivia Harrison, Dhani and the editor of the movie on stage interviewed by none other than Philippe Manoeuvre, with his trademark shades, the editor in chief of French rock mag Rock & Folk.
That was the interesting moment of the evening and also... the funny part.
He has his own special way of speaking English, so we all had a good laugh.
A video of the interview should be coming soon on this site.

The interview:

Thanks to Philippe Etzi aka Filoudelou for the video

Last part but the most important, the one we're all here for: The screening of the Martin Scorsese movie on George Harrison, played in two parts as the doc is 3h30 long.

Very interesting documentary, there are some footage that I've never seen (Live songs from the 1974 American Tour) a couple of interviews from American tv...
There are some long parts too which are less interesting.
Good documentary overall but don't know if it's really worth getting it on dvd, not the kind of thing that you will watch everyday like a concert.

I've seen the book it's really fantastic, this one is really worth buying.

For Paul McCartney news , Pics, live reviews with videos it's HERE

Crosby & Nash @ Olympia, Paris Oct 14 2011

Crosby & Nash @ Olympia, Paris Oct 14 2011

Crosby & Nash are back in Paris for the first time since their show @ Casino de Paris in 2005.
Of course we saw them last year with CSN in this very same théatre ( scroll down for links to previous reviews).
We've always prefered CSN to C&N but we're not too sure after seeing tonight's performance.

They opened the first set with a great rendition of The Byrds' "Eight Miles High".
The sound is terrific, it's like listening to your stereo at home, we have some nice seats, 4th row on the right on David's side.
These guys might be (very) old they still have the same voice.Incredible.
David is on top form tonight making lots of jokes between songs, there are also lots of very serious talks on politics and nuclear energy.

All along the show to keep things interesting the band is alternating classics and more recent songs, Crosby songs and Nash songs, acoustic and electric, full band or just the duet ... so it's always something different.

The first set is 60 min long then we have a intermission.
After this first part, all the audience is rushing to the merchandising stall to get a card so they can download, next week on the official website, tonight's show.(25 Euros).

The second part of the show will be as terrific as the first one.
More classics are played, they do have a fantastic guitar player Shayne Fontaine that is taking Steven Stills guitar parts when needed. Reproducing his sound and soli perfectly.
James Raymond , David's son, is on keys and backing vocals; Kevin McCormick that they stole for Jackson Browne's band is on bass; Steve DiStanislao on drums and vocals.
Hard to get things wrong with such a tight band and so many fantastic songs.

The end of the gig is stunning with "Cathedral"-"Deja Vu"-"Military Madness"-"Wooden Ships"-( with terrific soli by each member) and last :"Teach your children" (see full setlist below)
When they are leaving the stage , they've been on for 2h30 min, it felt like just an hour.

One of our best gig for 2011.

Merchandising

setlist

"Our House":


Check our previous review of last year's concert @ Olympia ( Part 2) on July 12th.
CSN in 2009 @ Olympia (with live video) Part 1 & Part 2 & Stephen Stills @ Olympia 2008.

Jane's Addiction streaming entire new album " The Great Escape Artist" before its release

Listen to the album HERE and on itunes

Alala Diane @ Trianon, Paris Oct 13 2011

Check Oliver's website for review (In German), SETLIST with nice Live Pics on stage & Backstage.

Some Girls remastered re-issue: everything you want to know about...

Promotional t-shirt (without Bill Wyman)

For formats ( editions, box set, memorabilia included, unreleased songs, prices...)
It's HERE

Van Halen have cancelled their planned 2012 Summer Tour of Europe before the dates were even announced
More HERE (scroll down when on page)

Joan Baez @ Grand Rex, Paris Oct 12 2011

Joan Baez @ Grand Rex, Paris Oct 12 2011

Joan Baez has never been so popular in France, that's her fourth and last show @ Grand Rex (two shows in June and yesterday & Today) all sold out. 10 000 people in all.
She played last month @ Fête de L'Humanité in front of more than 50 000 people.
She also did a few shows in France.

Last time we saw her, was @ Palais des Congres in 2008.
At the time she was playing with a full band, tonight there's just a banjo player , who's also playing acoustic bass and piano.
When you have good songs like she does, an acoustic guitar is enough, you don't need much.
Suzanne Vega is doing the same and her gigs ( @ Alhambra in 2008 & Théatre Marigny in 2010 ) are just great.

Joan with Marianne Aya Omac (far left)

She started the gig on her own , center stage with her acoustic guitar, sound is perfect: clear and not loud at all and the lightshow is minimal.
She's playing most of her hits, covers of Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan... check setlist for details.
She's joined on a couple of songs by Marianne Aya Omac for a couple of Spanish songs which had the audience singing some "OOOOOlllléééééééééééé".
She (Marianne) has a great voice and the Spanish-style guitar playing is stunning but you really wonder what she was doing here.

Joan Baez took the time and made the effort to introduce many of the songs in fluent French even.
She did "le Deserteur" in French without guitar and played a John Lennon cover.
Of course most if not all songs were political.

Great gig, Great conditions to attend such a gig, confortably seated in the sofas of the Grand Rex.

See ya there on sunday afternoon for the Première of the Martin Scorsese documentary on George Harrison : " Living in a Material World", Olivia will attend.

setlist ( may not be accurate ) and Konny Steding's painting @ Moretti (far right)

There was a vernissage tonight @ Galerie Moretti between Bastille & Place des Vosges for Konny Steding, we arrived there after the war, everything was closed.
Only was left her painting on the door.
It's open from tuesday to sunday from Oct 13 to Nov 19.

"Here's to You":

Mosko & friend "Félins" @ Galerie Oblique, Paris Oct 11 2011

Mosko " Félins" @ Galerie Oblique, Village St Paul
12 Oct- 05 Nov 2011

streets of Paris: Space Invader (far left), Bastille after demonstration (center), Hotel Particulier (far right)

Mosko Paintings (with Jérome Mesnager on far left)

"Félins" exhibition Vernissage for French Street-artist Mosko @ Galerie Oblique.
That's the kind of street art that we really like @ Rockerparis, you've already seen some street paintings on this site.(HERE and other pages I can't find)
Always a nice way of getting the city more beautiful and better than those fucking tags.

Lots of people for this vernissage tonight, street-art has never been so popular.
We had the pleasure of having the artist(s) doing a stencil LIVE on the wall next to the Galerie.

It's always very interesting to know how these guys are doing specially when the painting is very difficult with lots of small details ( watch video below).

Mosko & friend @ Work

The evening wouldn't have been perfect without a nice restaurant Rue de Babylone just next Mick Jagger's apartment unfortunately he's not in town but in Peru.

Paris by Night